@ChuckPA
Thank you for trying to explain the punctuation “situation”. Let me cite you:
It is perfectly valid to use Shark Tank.S01E01.optional title here.ext while Shark.Tank.S01E01.optional.title.here.ext is not.
Short question: any insights on WHY?
The overuse of punctuation actually confuses the scanner.
Erm… it does not confuse it after Plex Dance in the original “problematic” scenario.
I am the programmer of presentation management Software, and we need to know and interprete about filenames a lot since we “guess” session and speaker names, talk ids and more stuff from it to spare customers from the need to identify their prsentation slots manually.
I bet Plex is doing a lot to recognize file names as well as folder names. And it is really appreciated.
But I don’t really see the need for not dropping punctuation characters from search phrases and search results altogether (or at least making them separate searches if no-punctuation-results do not produce results).
In this forum, you encounter the same “problems” with users over and over again. My reflex would be: h*ll, let’s find a way to go around this. Maybe it takes a week or month of intense testing to find it. But it takes a lot more effort to fight for these rules anytime some user did not get it right. Maybe you even find a movie/episode or a dozen which is not found because of some dot is missing. But you do not need to force anybody else to rename their files.
Yes, it will find the file. Yes it will initially add the file.
If you’re lucky, it will eventually come up with a metadata score value > 50% likelihood and retrieve metadata.
If it cannot achieve a score > 50%, the file will be dropped from the library listing as ‘unmatched’.
If it does not find something with a score of more than 50%, why not trying again by searching with punctuation removed by the search routine?
I don’t get it…
And why is it finding the SAME names after Plex Dancing… please re-read the original post. Voodoo?
And to the guy who suggested to stop posting to this thread. Thank you for your kind suggestion. Dito.
If the Software would be amended, the guy’s problem would be gone as well as thousands of other person’s problems as well. And only a couple of guys would need to do something, not thousands… let software do the work…
Or maybe you want to tell your customers why Software CANNOT take care of that problem. Do not defend the fact, that is isn’t currently taking care of it. 
